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The Missouri Patriot and Forum Supports and Recommends the Following Candidates running for local office in the April 5, 2016 Elections
(Candidates with "*" Responded to our questionnaire.)
ST CHARLES COMMUNITY COLLEGE BOARD: Ryan Robertson
FRANCIS HOWELL SCHOOL BOARD: Kimberlyann Granger* & Mike Hoehn
WENTZVILLE SCHOOL BOARD: Sandy Garber, Dale Schaper, & Lezlie Jo Stephens
CITY OF O'FALLON CITY COUNCIL: Ward 1, Bill Gardner; Ward 4, Jeff Schwentker
CITY OF WENTZVILLE: Mayor: Nickolas (Nick) Guccione; Aldermen: Ward 1, Robert (Rob) Hussey; Ward 2, Michael Rhodes; Ward 3, Linda L. Wright.
CITY OF FORISTELL: Aldermen: Ward 1, Mark Meyerhoff; Ward 2, John D. Pickering
CITY OF NEW MELLE: Mayor: Richard W. West; Alderman: Ward 1, Donald O. Hendrich
LAKE ST LOUIS FIRE DEPARTMENT: Jeffrey A. Rakestraw*
Please note:
Our recommended list does not include those running unopposed. Everyone else running for office who is not on our recommended list has NOT received our endorsement.
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We recommend that you print this list, fold it so it fits into your pocket and use it as a reference when you go into the voting booth or vote absentee.
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The Missouri Patriot recommends voting NO on all propositions and amendments. The list follows:
FORT ZUMWALT SCHOOL DISTRICT: PROPOSITION K Shall the Board of Education of Fort Zumwalt School District of St. Charles County, Missouri be authorized to increase the operating tax levy of the District by $0.48 per one hundred dollars of assessed valuation for the purposes of paying costs of educational programs, technology upgrades and other operating expenses of the District? If this proposition is approved, the adjusted operating levy of the District is estimated to be $4.5436 per one hundred dollars of assessed valuation. CITY OF ST. CHARLES: CHARTER AMENDMENT Shall the Charter of the City of Saint Charles, Missouri be amended by amending Sections 3.6, 6.2, 9.1(a) and 9.4(b) as follows: Shall the Charter of the City of Saint Charles, Missouri be amended by amending Section 3.6 pertaining to the election of council president; by amending Section 6.2 to adopt the process set forth in Missouri state statute for the appointment of an eligible person to act as municipal judge whenever the municipal judge is absent, unable to act or the position is vacant; by amending Section 9.1(a) to establish the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April as the regular election day; and by amending Section 9.4(b) to establish that election returns are canvassed and election results declared at the first regular meeting after the Election Authority certifies election results. CITY OF ST. CHARLES: PROPOSITION A Shall the City of St. Charles, Missouri continue applying and collecting the local sales tax on the titling of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors that were purchased from a source source other than a licensed Missouri dealer? Rejection of this measure will result in a reduction of local revenue to provide for vital services for the City of St. Charles, Missouri and it will place Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers at a competitive disadvantage to non-Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers? CITY OF FLINT HILL: PROPOSITION B Shall the City of Flint Hill, Missouri continue applying and collecting the local sales tax on the titling of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors that were purchased from a source other than a licensed Missouri dealer? Rejection of this measure will result in a reduction of local revenue to provide for vital services for the City of Flint Hill, Missouri and it will place Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers at a competitive disadvantage to non-Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers? CITY OF O'FALLON: PROPOSITION B Shall the City of O'Fallon, Missouri, continue applying and collecting for local sales tax on the titling of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors that were purchased from a source other than a licensed Missouri dealer? Rejection of this measure will result in a reduction of local revenue to provide for vital services for the City of O'Fallon, Missouri and it will place Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers at a competitive disadvantage to non-Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers. CITY OF ST. PETERS: PROPOSITION B Shall the City of St. Peters, Missouri continue applying and collecting the local sales tax on the titling of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors that were purchased from a source other than a licensed Missouri dealer? Rejection of this measure will result in a reduction of local revenue to provide for vital services for the City of St. Peters, Missouri and it will place Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers at a competitive disadvantage to non-Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers? CITY OF COTTLEVILLE: PROPOSITION B Shall the City of Cottleville, Missouri continue applying and collecting the local sales tax on the titling of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors that were purchased from a source other than a licensed Missouri dealer? Rejection of this measure will result in a reduction of local revenue to provide for vital services for the City of Cottleville, Missouri and it will place Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers at a competitive disadvantage to non-Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers. CITY OF LAKE SAINT LOUIS: PROPOSITION B Shall the City of Lake Saint Louis, Missouri continue applying and collecting the local sales tax on the titling of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors that were purchased from a source other than a licensed Missouri dealer? Rejection of this measure will result in a reduction of local revenue to provide for vital services for the City of Lake Saint Louis, Missouri and it will place Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers at a competitive disadvantage to non-Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers. CITY OF WENTZVILLE: ALDERMEN TERM AMENDMENT Shall the terms of Aldermen which are currently set at two years in the City of Wentzville, Missouri, under Section 105.020 of the Municipal Code of the City of Wentzville be extended to four years for Aldermen after April 5, 2016?
CITY OF FORISTELL: PROPOSITION F Shall the City of Foristell, Missouri, impose a city motor vehicle fuel license tax of one cent ($.01) per gallon for the purpose of funding the construction, reconstruction, repair maintenance, policing, signing, lighting and cleaning of streets and for the payment and interest on indebtedness incurred on account of road and street purposes?
CITY OF DARDENNE PRAIRIE: PROPOSITION B
Shall the City of Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, continue applying and collecting the local sales tax on the titling of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors that were purchased from a source other than a licensed Missouri dealer? Rejection of this measure will result in a reduction of local revenue to provide for vital services for the City of Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, and it will place Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers at a competitive disadvantage to non-Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers? CITY OF WELDON SPRING: PROPOSITION B Shall the City of Weldon Spring, Missouri continue applying and collecting the local sales tax on the titling of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors that were purchased from a source other than a licensed Missouri dealer? Rejection of this measure will result in a reduction of local revenue to provide for vital services for the City of Weldon Spring, Missouri and it will place Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers at a competitive disadvantage to non-Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers. CITY OF PORTAGE DES SIOUX: PROPOSITION 1 In attempt to eliminate the unfair advantage enjoyed by out-of-state vendors over local vendors, shall the City of Portage des Sioux discontinue applying and collecting the local sales tax on the titling of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors that were purchased from a source other than a licensed Missouri dealer? Approval of this measure will result in a reduction of local revenue to provide for vital services for the City of Portage des Sioux and it will place Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers at a competitive disadvantage to non-Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers. CITY OF WEST ALTON: PROPOSITION A Shall the City of West Alton, Missouri continue applying and collecting the local sales tax on the titling of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors that were purchased from a source other than a licensed Missouri dealer? Rejection of this measure will result in a reduction of local revenue to provide for vital services for the City of West Alton, Missouri and it will place Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers at a competitive disadvantage to non-Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers?
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The Missouri Patriot and Forum Supports and Recommends the Following Candidates running for office in the April 5, 2016 Elections
Candidates with "*" Responded to our questionnaire.
ST CHARLES COMMUNITY COLLEGE BOARD: Ryan Robertson
FRANCIS HOWELL SCHOOL BOARD: Kimberlyann Granger* & Mike Hoehn
WENTZVILLE SCHOOL BOARD: Sandy Garber, Dale Schaper, & Lezlie Jo Stephens
CITY OF O'FALLON CITY COUNCIL: Ward 1, Bill Gardner; Ward 4, Jeff Schwentker
CITY OF WENTZVILLE: Mayor: Nickolas (Nick) Guccione; Aldermen: Ward 1, Robert (Rob) Hussey; Ward 2, Michael Rhodes; Ward 3, Linda L. Wright.
CITY OF FORISTELL: Aldermen: Ward 1, Mark Meyerhoff; Ward 2, John D. Pickering
CITY OF NEW MELLE: Mayor: Richard W. West; Alderman: Ward 1, Donald O. Hendrich
LAKE ST LOUIS FIRE DEPARTMENT: Jeffrey A. Rakestraw*
Please note:
Our recommended list does not include those running unopposed. Everyone else running for office who is not on our recommended list has NOT received our endorsement.
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We recommend that you print this list, fold it so it fits into your pocket and use it as a reference when you go into the voting booth or vote absentee.
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The Missouri Patriot recommends voting NO on all propositions and amendments. The list follows:
FORT ZUMWALT SCHOOL DISTRICT: PROPOSITION K Shall the Board of Education of Fort Zumwalt School District of St. Charles County, Missouri be authorized to increase the operating tax levy of the District by $0.48 per one hundred dollars of assessed valuation for the purposes of paying costs of educational programs, technology upgrades and other operating expenses of the District? If this proposition is approved, the adjusted operating levy of the District is estimated to be $4.5436 per one hundred dollars of assessed valuation. CITY OF ST. CHARLES: CHARTER AMENDMENT Shall the Charter of the City of Saint Charles, Missouri be amended by amending Sections 3.6, 6.2, 9.1(a) and 9.4(b) as follows: Shall the Charter of the City of Saint Charles, Missouri be amended by amending Section 3.6 pertaining to the election of council president; by amending Section 6.2 to adopt the process set forth in Missouri state statute for the appointment of an eligible person to act as municipal judge whenever the municipal judge is absent, unable to act or the position is vacant; by amending Section 9.1(a) to establish the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April as the regular election day; and by amending Section 9.4(b) to establish that election returns are canvassed and election results declared at the first regular meeting after the Election Authority certifies election results. CITY OF ST. CHARLES: PROPOSITION A Shall the City of St. Charles, Missouri continue applying and collecting the local sales tax on the titling of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors that were purchased from a source source other than a licensed Missouri dealer? Rejection of this measure will result in a reduction of local revenue to provide for vital services for the City of St. Charles, Missouri and it will place Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers at a competitive disadvantage to non-Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers? CITY OF FLINT HILL: PROPOSITION B Shall the City of Flint Hill, Missouri continue applying and collecting the local sales tax on the titling of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors that were purchased from a source other than a licensed Missouri dealer? Rejection of this measure will result in a reduction of local revenue to provide for vital services for the City of Flint Hill, Missouri and it will place Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers at a competitive disadvantage to non-Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers? CITY OF O'FALLON: PROPOSITION B Shall the City of O'Fallon, Missouri, continue applying and collecting for local sales tax on the titling of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors that were purchased from a source other than a licensed Missouri dealer? Rejection of this measure will result in a reduction of local revenue to provide for vital services for the City of O'Fallon, Missouri and it will place Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers at a competitive disadvantage to non-Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers. CITY OF ST. PETERS: PROPOSITION B Shall the City of St. Peters, Missouri continue applying and collecting the local sales tax on the titling of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors that were purchased from a source other than a licensed Missouri dealer? Rejection of this measure will result in a reduction of local revenue to provide for vital services for the City of St. Peters, Missouri and it will place Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers at a competitive disadvantage to non-Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers? CITY OF COTTLEVILLE: PROPOSITION B Shall the City of Cottleville, Missouri continue applying and collecting the local sales tax on the titling of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors that were purchased from a source other than a licensed Missouri dealer? Rejection of this measure will result in a reduction of local revenue to provide for vital services for the City of Cottleville, Missouri and it will place Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers at a competitive disadvantage to non-Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers. CITY OF LAKE SAINT LOUIS: PROPOSITION B Shall the City of Lake Saint Louis, Missouri continue applying and collecting the local sales tax on the titling of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors that were purchased from a source other than a licensed Missouri dealer? Rejection of this measure will result in a reduction of local revenue to provide for vital services for the City of Lake Saint Louis, Missouri and it will place Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers at a competitive disadvantage to non-Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers. CITY OF WENTZVILLE: ALDERMEN TERM AMENDMENT Shall the terms of Aldermen which are currently set at two years in the City of Wentzville, Missouri, under Section 105.020 of the Municipal Code of the City of Wentzville be extended to four years for Aldermen after April 5, 2016?
CITY OF FORISTELL: PROPOSITION F Shall the City of Foristell, Missouri, impose a city motor vehicle fuel license tax of one cent ($.01) per gallon for the purpose of funding the construction, reconstruction, repair maintenance, policing, signing, lighting and cleaning of streets and for the payment and interest on indebtedness incurred on account of road and street purposes?
CITY OF DARDENNE PRAIRIE: PROPOSITION B
Shall the City of Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, continue applying and collecting the local sales tax on the titling of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors that were purchased from a source other than a licensed Missouri dealer? Rejection of this measure will result in a reduction of local revenue to provide for vital services for the City of Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, and it will place Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers at a competitive disadvantage to non-Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers? CITY OF WELDON SPRING: PROPOSITION B Shall the City of Weldon Spring, Missouri continue applying and collecting the local sales tax on the titling of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors that were purchased from a source other than a licensed Missouri dealer? Rejection of this measure will result in a reduction of local revenue to provide for vital services for the City of Weldon Spring, Missouri and it will place Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers at a competitive disadvantage to non-Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers. CITY OF PORTAGE DES SIOUX: PROPOSITION 1 In attempt to eliminate the unfair advantage enjoyed by out-of-state vendors over local vendors, shall the City of Portage des Sioux discontinue applying and collecting the local sales tax on the titling of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors that were purchased from a source other than a licensed Missouri dealer? Approval of this measure will result in a reduction of local revenue to provide for vital services for the City of Portage des Sioux and it will place Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers at a competitive disadvantage to non-Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers. CITY OF WEST ALTON: PROPOSITION A Shall the City of West Alton, Missouri continue applying and collecting the local sales tax on the titling of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors that were purchased from a source other than a licensed Missouri dealer? Rejection of this measure will result in a reduction of local revenue to provide for vital services for the City of West Alton, Missouri and it will place Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers at a competitive disadvantage to non-Missouri dealers of motor vehicles, outboard motors, boats, and trailers?
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